Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way.… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother,… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something,… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all. — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
